On Judging

[Truth in love]

Some comments reminded me of this. Judging is a very loaded term my favorite snap shot on this is as follows:

"I have been puzzled that some scriptures command us not to judge and others instruct us that we should judge and even tell us how to do it. I am convinced that these seemingly contradictory directions are consistent when we view them with the perspective of eternity. The key is to understand that there are two kinds of judging: final judgments, which we are forbidden to make; and intermediate judgments, which we are directed to make, but upon righteous principles." -Dallin H. Oaks

Thoughts? What do you believe on

1. Judging others and their odds of heave and hell.
2. Judging the rightness or wrongness of a given act.

 

[questfortruth]

1. Judging others and their odds of heave and hell.
2. Judging the rightness or wrongness of a given act.

Not you are the Judge. God is Judge. Hear your God through conscience. You cannot be a better person than God. If God condemns Sodom and Homorra, you cannot un-condemn them.

 

[RestlessSoul]

Matthew 7:1-5

Luke 6:37

 

[Truth in love]

Matthew 7:1-5

Luke 6:37

Yes and John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

 

[pearl]

1. Judging others and their odds of heave and hell.
2. Judging the rightness or wrongness of a given act.

This is not a prohibition against recognizing the faults of others, but against passing judgment in a spirit of arrogance, forgetful of one’s own faults.

Dogs and swine were Jewish terms of contempt for Gentiles. This saying may originally have derived from a Jewish Christian community opposed to preaching the gospel (what is holy, pearls) to Gentiles.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Thoughts?

Keep it up! The judgemental attitudes, and justifying them, are a reason Christianity is in such sharp decline.
The annoyances today are worth it for a future free of Christian prejudice and bigotry.

 

[Revoltingest]

Not you are the Judge. God is Judge. Hear your God through conscience. You cannot be a better person than God. If God condemns Sodom and Homorra, you cannot un-condemn them.

I judge your god.
Currently, he's still on probation.

 

[questfortruth]

I judge your god.

Then you are theist?

 

[Revoltingest]

Then you are theist?

Just planning in case I ever become one.
(Fortunately, the odds are low.)

 

[questfortruth]

Just planning in case I ever become one.
(Fortunately, the odds are low.)

It will be a beautiful wonder.

 

[danieldemol]

Some comments reminded me of this. Judging is a very loaded term my favorite snap shot on this is as follows:

"I have been puzzled that some scriptures command us not to judge and others instruct us that we should judge and even tell us how to do it. I am convinced that these seemingly contradictory directions are consistent when we view them with the perspective of eternity. The key is to understand that there are two kinds of judging: final judgments, which we are forbidden to make; and intermediate judgments, which we are directed to make, but upon righteous principles." -Dallin H. Oaks

Thoughts? What do you believe on

1. Judging others and their odds of heave and hell.
2. Judging the rightness or wrongness of a given act.

Don't believe in hell, so I have no problem judging that no-one will make it there.

I believe in judging the rightness, wrongness or moral neutrality of given acts in accordance with the harm they do to others.

In my opinion.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I judge your god.
Currently, he's still on probation.

I told you not to let him out of the cage!

 

[Revoltingest]

I told you not to let him out of the cage!

He has an ankle monitor.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

He has an ankle monitor.

I've known those to be dummies from time to time. If he's anything like my brother was he'll already have tested it to know if it's real or not.

 

[Revoltingest]

I've known those to be dummies from time to time. If he's anything like my brother was he'll already have tested it to know if it's real or not.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

This is why he stays in the cage so this isn't an issue! Now who am I going to torment with "it rubs the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again"?

 

[1213]

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"I have been puzzled that some scriptures command us not to judge and others instruct us that we should judge and even tell us how to do it. I am convinced that these seemingly contradictory directions are consistent when we view them with the perspective of eternity. The key is to understand that there are two kinds of judging: final judgments, which we are forbidden to make; and intermediate judgments, which we are directed to make, but upon righteous principles." -Dallin H. Oaks
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It seems to me that the "contradiction" comes form that they don't understand that God set judges at one point to judge people. And they should have judged on basis of what the law says. Now people seem to identify with the judges from that era, and I think it is silly, especially if they are Christians which means disciples of Jesus, who should live by what Jesus said.

"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged. For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you."
Mat. 7:1-2